A DICTIONARY OF ALCHEMICAL IMAGERY

This 1999 Dictionary documents alchemical symbolism from the early centuries AD to the late-twentieth century, for use by historians of literary culture, philosophy, science and the visual arts, and readers interested in alchemy and hermeticism. Emphasising litera ry and intellectual references in the Western tradition written in or translated into English, the Dictionary focuses most closely o n works current in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries when alchemy captivated the minds of figures such as Sir Walter Raleigh a nd Isaac...[Llegir més]